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Seems that nearly all the rumored buffs to CC were lies. And now you can't assault with a FMC if you changed flight mode this turn, so you have to be gliding for two turns before melee, which usually means that you are dead.

luke1705 wrote:
The changes to smash, the vector strikes being only 1 hit against ground targets, and allegedly needing to glide for a turn before charging (which I don't buy)......where are these rumors coming from?

The need to glide for a turn has been confirmed in a scan sadly. The same guy also confirmed that VS is one hit, or d3 on flyers. Smash I am unsure of.

I'd love to see Nids become as terrifying an army as their fluff implies they ought to be.

Sadly, I don't think 'making' Nids has ever been a priority for GW. They haven't had a satisfactory new codex for a long, long time.

 jifel wrote:

luke1705 wrote:
The changes to smash, the vector strikes being only 1 hit against ground targets, and allegedly needing to glide for a turn before charging (which I don't buy)......where are these rumors coming from?

The need to glide for a turn has been confirmed in a scan sadly. The same guy also confirmed that VS is one hit, or d3 on flyers. Smash I am unsure of.

That is terribly sad. I can't decide if I would prefer to come down for a guaranteed turn of shooting against me or come down on their terms but be able to assault the following turn. I suppose in a way, this is better. Although it was nice to hope that we never failed grounding checks, it did happen all the time. And it was an issue. Now, we effectively will probably never fail a grounding check, and as it has been pointed out, in many cases it will be awesome to fail a grounding check since it will mean that we are able to assault the following turn. Overall, I think if we had kept the d3+1 strikes against ground targets I would actually be pretty happy. But with AP 2 and keeping d3+1 against flyers.....good God that Hive Crone. Can I take 5? Oh wait, yes I can! I think that it's a pretty fair deal overall. I think that we got super happy hoping that GW had dawned the golden age of FMC, but it turns out they may understand that certain things would have basically broken the game.